I was fortunate to have a bad engine to practice on before I worked on my good engine. I had the Pelican Parts kit, a LN Retrofit tool, the 101 projects book, the Bentley manual, and a set of factory service manuals. I reviewed several threads here and watched some decent YouTube videos before I started.
The problem came when I tried putting in the set-screws that came with the Pelican kit and realized that
one of them was not in contact the IMS with the engine set to TDC. So I unlocked the camshaft and rotated the crankshaft slightly until all three screws had a grip. Having read through a variety of procedures, I was not following any one in particular. Heck, how hard can it be?
The bearing came out pretty easily, but once it was out it the set-screws shifted and the shaft moved about 1/4 - 3/8" inch to the side. Re-installing the old bearing in the bad engine I managed to get the bearing in position, but never fully installed the cover.
Lesson learned: Set-scews are bad. Pinning at TDC and locking the cam from the start, until fully reinstalled is good.
Installing the bearing in my good engine went pretty well. I did the procedure in
this guide which is pretty much like
the one from LN, but with great color pictures.
Both bearings were dual row with about 125k miles and rolled pretty smoothly, but the grease was completely gone and the shafts had foul smelling oil inside.
My related threads:
http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/54527-maint-do-swapping-used-2-7-a.html
http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/54660-little-scoring-2-rod.html
http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/54973-got-my-salvage-01-road.html
Enough about me. We need to get the summary of the Gonzojive adventure in this thread.